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October 18, 2013, 2:35 PM

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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Apple: No, We Can't Read Your iMessages (And We Don't Want to, Either) — Touting its commitment to user privacy in the wake of the NSA surveillance scandal earlier this year, Apple said that the end-to-end encryption protecting its iMessage instant-messenger service is so secure that even the company itself cannot decrypt it.

Jeremy Kirk / Macworld:

Researchers challenge Apple's claim of unbreakable iMessage encryption

More: VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Guardian, ZDNet, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Phones Review, Daily Dot and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @techhive

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

40% Of YouTube Traffic Now Mobile, Up From 25% In 2012, 6% In 2011 — It's hard to get people to concentrate long on anything on their phones and tablets, yet YouTube seems to be the exception. The video service is quickly going mobile, with small screens making up 40% of its traffic …

More: AllThingsD, AllThingsD, VideoNuze Analysis, dailywireless.org, BGR, Softpedia News, Inquirer, ReelSEO Video Marketing, hypebot and IntoMobile

Tweets: @hunterwalk and @antderosa

See also Mediagazer

Seth Fiegerman / Mashable:

Google Stock Hits $1,000 for First Time Ever

More: CNET, Associated Press, The Verge, Digits, GigaOM, GeekWire, ZDNet, BGR, IntoMobile, Reuters and CNBC

Tweets: @eghosao and @howardlindzon

Thanks:@toddwasserman

Google:

Google Inc. Announces Third Quarter 2013 Results

More: New York Times, TechCrunch, AllThingsD, VatorNews, PandoDaily, ClickZ, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, Softpedia News, iClarified, MediaNama, Forbes, eWeek, Digits, Engadget, Quartz, TechHive, Computerworld, MobileSyrup.com, ZDNet, Mashable, Phandroid, SlashGear and CNET

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Google Beats The Street In Q3 With $14.89B In Revenue, Net Income Of $2.97B, And EPS Of $10.74

More: Inquirer, BGR, TechEye, 9to5Google, Business Insider, GigaOM, Engadget, WebProNews and VentureBeat

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Moto X isn't helping Motorola yet as losses widen

More: Softpedia News, San Francisco Chronicle and Guardian

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Nexus 5 listing appears in the Play Store, teases 16GB for $349 — We still haven't heard anything official about Google's next Nexus phone, but tonight some people are already seeing it as an option in the Play Store. Just among our editors, some see the Nexus 4 while others get the result shown above …

Bertel King, Jr / Android Police:

Possible Press Images Of The TELUS Nexus 5 Have Appeared, Show New Camera Icon, Other Minor Tweaks

More: MobileSyrup.com, The Register, Los Angeles Times, Gizmodo, GSM Insider, The Verge, Phandroid, Droid Life and Android Geeks

Tim Culpan / Bloomberg:

HTC Loses Head of Global PR After Four Months — Just when it seems HTC has stemmed its executive exodus, another senior figure departs the Taiwanese smartphone maker. — Lorain Wong joined HTC as Vice President and head of Global PR, Corporate and Internal Communications, this past June.

More: BGR, ZDNet, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Beat, The Verge and Phandroid

Laura Hazard Owen / GigaOM:

Aereo comes to Detroit on October 28. Can it really hit 22 cities by the end of 2013? — Aereo is coming to Detroit and surrounding counties on October 28, the company announced Friday. — Detroit is the thirteenth city where Aereo has announced plans to launch this year.

More: All Aereo, Engadget, CNET, TechCrunch and Softpedia News. See also Mediagazer

Brad Stone / Businessweek:

Jeff Bezos's League of Shadows — Amazon can be a uniquely challenging place to work, with its question-mark emergencies and the occasionally volcanic outburst from the visionary chief executive. It's a place where promotions are hard-fought and sometimes painfully public.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @felixgillette, @eghosao, @jimaley and @counterparties

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Lenovo announces A10 Android laptop amid slumping PC sales — After unintentionally leaking its existence, Lenovo has today officially announced the A10 Android laptop. It's the first laptop from the world's top PC vendor to ship with Android 4.2 on board.

More: Engadget, Lenovo Newsroom, Electronista, Softpedia News and AndroidHeadlines.com

David Pogue / New York Times:

Windows 8.1: An improvement for touch devices, but still feels jarring — Reconciling 2 Worlds With Windows 8.1 — Just about one year ago, Microsoft gave us two new operating systems. — One was a new version of Windows: the one for use with mouse and keyboard, the one whose desktop …

More: Business Insider, Global Nerdy and Digits

Tweets: @fxshaw, @fxshaw, @kfury, @evelynrusli and @danieleran

Harry McCracken / TIME:

Windows 8.1 Is the First Rough Draft of ‘One Microsoft’

Thanks:@mariedomingo

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

The streak is over: Xbox 360 dethroned by PS3 after 32 months atop U.S. market — Thirty-two months, or 2-and-a-half years: That's how long Microsoft's Xbox 360 held the top spot in the U.S. console market, based on unit sales. But the streak ended as of September, as Sony's PlayStation 3 took …

More: BGR, Inquirer, CNET, Gearburn, Digits, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear and TIME. Thanks:@taylor_soper

Matt Jarzemsky / Wall Street Journal:

NYSE to Test Trading System in Preparation for Twitter IPO — Notice to traders announces dry run to be held on Oct. 26, after technical failures marred Facebook's IPO. — The New York Stock Exchange will allow trading firms to test their systems in preparation for Twitter Inc.'s initial public offering …

More: VentureBeat

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

As Suitors Swarm, Imgur Partners With Yahoo to Host Images — Imgur, the image hosting site, receives 100 million monthly unique visitors, it announced last month. That's big. — The company still isn't, though — tiny and bootstrapped, it is based in San Francisco and has fewer than 10 employees.

Killian Bell / Cult of Mac:

Apple Recalls MacBook Air Flash Storage Sold Between June 2012 & June 2013 — Apple has recalled 64GB and 128GB flash storage drives that were used in the previous generation MacBook Air. The systems were sold during June 2012 and June 2013, and those affected qualify for a free flash …

More: Apple, iMore, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Network World, Ars Technica, GigaOM, Gizmodo, Softpedia News, Geek.com and The Next Web

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Pew: One in three Americans owns a tablet, one in four owns an e-reader, and 43% have one or the other — One in three Americans now owns a tablet, or 35 percent of the population aged 16 and older. At the same time, one in four US citizens at least 16-years-old now owns an e-reader.

More: Pew Internet, GeekWire, ZDNet and LJ INFOdocket. See also Mediagazer

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Black Market Reloaded, Silk Road's main competitor, shuts down due to security breach — Silk Road's main competitor shuts down indefinitely — Black Market Reloaded, the digital black market that was the largest competitor to the recently-busted Silk Road, just announced it's closing and refunding users' money.

More: Slate, My Blog, Softpedia News, SlashGear, Guardian and Business Insider

Dante D'Orazio / The Verge:

Samsung set-top box uses mediocre Smart TV software to compete with Roku, Apple TV — Samsung isn't known for its software, but that hasn't stopped the company from pushing its Smart TV interface, which offers access to video streaming apps like Netflix, Hulu Plus, HBO Go, and MLB.TV, as well as a selection of other utilities.

More: Zatz Not Funny!, Gizmodo and Wired

Shara Tibken / CNET:

Samsung $150 smart box packs in streaming apps, cable

More: Business Wire and Gearburn

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD beats earnings targets as game console revenue kicks in — Nov. 12 - 13, 2013 — Advanced Micro Devices has the next generation of home video game consoles to thanks for the good news in its earning report. — AMD reported financial results today that slightly beat Wall Street's expectations …

More: Tech Trader Daily, PC World, Inquirer, Computerworld, Marketwired, The Register, eWeek, The Verge, GigaOM, ITworld.com and ZDNet

Electronista:

AMD posts $1.46 billion quarterly revenue, returns to profitability

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